Atleast once a day I'm going to post a new fact, explain it, and give you a link to a more in depth explanation.
Starting in Europe thousands of years ago, ginger hair is a result of a genetic mutation (Ginger didn’t just “exist”), and nowadays only about 2% of the population have naturally ginger, or red, hair.
Scientist-types think that gingers could be extinct in as little as 100 years. What is causing the problem is not because ginger people are ugly (Hey, I’m a big fan of red heads myself), but because of global breeding, something which has significantly increased within the past 60 years (since commercial flight). Ginger is a weaker (recessive?) gene, meaning that other hair colours often decide a baby’s outcome.
40% of Scots carry the gene, and 13% are ginger.
